The lowest shares of non-wage costs were recorded in Lithuania (3.7%), Romania (4.9%) and Ireland (8.7%) and the highest in Sweden (32.0%), France (31.9%) and Italy (28.3%). The share of non-wage costs in total labour costs for the whole economy was 24.6% in the EU and 25.1% in the euro area. The two main components of labour costs are wages & salaries and non-wage costs (e.g. In the mainly non-business economy (excluding public administration), they were €30.3 and €33.6 respectively. In services, hourly labour costs were €28.8 in the EU and €31.6 in the euro area. In construction, they were €26.0 and €29.3 respectively. Hourly labour costs in industry were €29.1 in the EU and €35.1 in the euro area. The average hourly labour costs mask significant gaps between EU Member States, with the lowest hourly labour costs recorded in Bulgaria (€7.0) and Romania (€8.5), and the highest in Denmark (€46.9), Luxembourg (€43.0) and Belgium (€41.6). This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article. These estimates come from data on labour costs levels published by Eurostat today. 4:20-cv-03664.In 2021, average hourly labour costs in the whole economy (see methodological note) were estimated to be €29.1 in the EU and €32.8 in the euro area, up compared with €28.6 and €32.4, respectively, in 2020. District Court, Northern District of California, No. The plaintiffs' firms, which also include Susman Godfrey and Morgan & Morgan, are seeking more than $1.07 million in fees and costs for their work drafting certain court filings and preparing for a hearing. The complaint said Google had secretly collected information from those users of the company's "Incognito" browsing mode.Ī Google spokesperson did not immediately comment on Monday, and a lawyer for Google at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. The underlying lawsuit was filed in 2020 and alleges Google invaded the privacy of web users who were browsing sites while in "private" mode. Jim Jones, senior fellow at Georgetown Law's Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession, called $2,000 hourly rates "very high" and would be limited "to people who were right at the top of their game and major rainmakers." Recent filings in a bankruptcy case showed Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal charging $2,465 hourly.
Well-known lawyer Kannon Shanmugam of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison was billing last year at $1,824 hourly. firms led the pack amid a "fairly aggressive" increase in billing rates.
The average hourly rate charged by law firms in 2021 across the market was $533, according to a 2022 report by Thomson Reuters Institute and Georgetown University Law Center. He did not return messages seeking comment on Monday. Boies' law firm has seen numerous departures to rival firms in recent years. More recently, Boies faced criticism over his work for Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood producer convicted of rape in 2020. government in its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
Google's attorneys have urged the judge not to impose any sanctions.īoies, 81, who founded litigation-focused firm Boies Schiller in 1997, developed his name as a lawyer for the U.S.
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